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FOSTER (James):
The Usefulness, Truth, and Excellency of the Christian Revelation defended Against the Objections contain'd in a late Book, intitled, Christianity as old as the Creation, &c.
London: Printed for J. Noon..., 1731. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. viii, 356, contemporary calf, cover borders ruled in bland, raised bands between gilt rules; lower front joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine very slightly chipped, corners slightly worn, but a very good copy. Foster's "answer" to Tindal's book was one of the best and most famous of the many attacks and replies that Christianity as Old as the Creation attracted; but in many ways Foster's argument is very close to Tindal's and accepts many deistic principles.
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GOLDNEY (Edward):
A Friendly Epistle to the Deists, and A Rational Prayer recommended to them. In order for their Conversion to the Christian Religion. Humbly Dedicated to his Most Excellent Majesty, King George.
London, Printed for the Author, and Sold by His Son, Edward Goldney..., 1760. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 208 x 130 mms., pp. [ii], viii, iv, 160, engraved portrait of Duke of Cumberland preceding main body of text, contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments (but rubbed and dried); lacks labels rear joint cracked. UNIFORMLY BOUND WITH GOLDNEY (Edward): A Friendly Epistle to the Jews, and A Rational Prayer recommended to them, In order for their Conversion to to the Christian Religion. Humbly Dedicated To His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. London, Printed for the Author, and Sold by His Son, Edward Goldney..., 1760. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (in 4s), 208 x 130 mms., pp. viii, 176, contemporary calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments (but rubbed and dried); lacks label, tops and baser of spine chipped, joints cracked (but firm). A serviceable set, with the armorial bookplate of Frederick Hastings Goldney on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume. ODNB notes that the the final years of the rabbi Aaron Hart "were made more wearisome by visits from Edward Goldney, who campaigned to convert Jews to Christianity and concentrated on the community's leaders...."
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LESLIE (Charles):
A Short and Easy Method with the Deists; Wherein the Certainy of the Christian Religion Is Demonstrated by Infallible Proof from Four Rules, which are incompatible to any Imposture that ever yet has been, or possibly can be. In a Letter to a Friend.... With a Letter from the Author to a Deist upon his Conversion by reading his Book. To which is prefixed A Preface By the Rev. W. Jones.... A New Ediiton, Published by Desire of he Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington..., 1799. 12mo, 164 x 97 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 111 [112 blank]. BOUND WITH: LESLIE (Charles): The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated, in a Dialogue betwixt a Christian and a Deist; Wherein the Case of the Jews is likewise considered. A New Edition, Published by Desire of he Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. London: Printed for F. and C. Rivington..., 1799. 12mo, pp. [iv], 144. 2 volumes in 1, bound in contemporary calf; spine worn, slight wear to joints and corners. The Irish clergyman Charles Leslie (1650 - 1722) was named for the martyred king, Charles I, and he was, not surprisingly, a zealous opponent of Roman Catholicism. A Short and Easy Method with the Deists was first published in 1694 and had reached a total of 29 editions by the end of the 18th century, and The Truth of Christianity Demonstrated appeared in 1710. His disapproval of Roman Catholics was complemented by an equal hostility to Jews and Quakers. Mark Noble, in his Biographical History of England (1806), commented that Leslie, "had much learning, but more faction; some wit but more scurrility." Samuel Johnson appeared to have a bit more respect for him, according to Boswell, saying of Leslie that he was "a reasoner, and a reasoner who was not to be reasoned against...." More recently, Professor J. C. D. Clark has described Leslie not only as "one of the most able intellects in the Stuart cause," but also "a vigilant and trenchant opponent of doctrinal error in the church."
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[MORGAN (Thomas)]:
A Brief Examination of the Rev. Mr. Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses. In which The Mosaic Thocrac, the Nature and Character of the Sacred Writings, the Antiquity of hero-Gods, and a future, separate State of Animal Life, and Action for Souls after Death; with other Principles and Positions of that learned Writer are occasionally considered and discussed. Address'd to the Author. By a Society of Gentlmen.
London Printed for T. Cox..., 1742 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 195 x 120 mms., pp.lxxxiv, 175 [176 blank], recently rebound in half plum calf, marbled boards; text water-stained at margins at beginning and end of text, no label on spine, but a good copy. "While commonly regarded as just another deist Morgan's originality lay in his application of the tools of historical criticism to scripture and to the history of religions. In the various controversies in which he was engaged he showed a keen intelligence and an enviable ability to turn the arguments of his opponents against them" (Peter Harrison in Oxford DNB). Warburton ostensibly took no notice of Morgan's book, and when Morgan the year after his Brief Examination was published, Warburton wrote to the clergyman Thomas Birch to say, "I live in peace, now that the redoubtable Dr. Morgan is dead." Warburton, who edited Alexander Pope's works for a collected edition in 1751, seems to have persuaded Pope to include Morgan as one of the Dunces in The Dunciad. Reviving a text that he had used in his Divine Legation of Moses, Warburton in his edition of Pope commented, "A writer against religion, distinguished no otherwise from the rabble of his tribe than the pompousness of his title; for, having stolen his morality from Tindal and his philosophy from Spinoza, he calls himself, by the courtesy of England, a Moral Philosopher." See Jan van der Berg's note, "'Morgan and Mandevil could Prate no More,' Pope's Dunciad, II, 414," Notes and Queries (2009).
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MORGAN (Thomas):
A Collection of Tracts, Relating to The Right of Private Judgment, the Sufficiency of Scripture, and the Terms of Church-Communion; upon Christian Principles: Occasion'd by the late Trinitarian Controversy. And now revised and published all together; With a Preface: By the Author.
London: Printed for John Osborn and Tho. Longman..., 1726. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xxxi [xxxii Contents], 488 [489 Errata, 490 adverts], slightly later 18th century panelled calf, morocco label; corners a little worn, but a very good copy. With the 20th century Ex Libris bookplate of John Raymond Capper on the recto of the front free end-paper and "Levenside" in an18th century hand on the front paste-down end-paper, possibly Levenside House near Dumbarton. The Trinitarian Controversy alluded to on the title-page had its most emphatic statement in the 18th century in Samuel Clarke's Scripture Doctrine of the Trinity, published in 1712. Morgan regards the concept of the trinity as unsubstantiated in the gospel and injurious to true religious principles. In this volume, he prints various "letters" to other authors engaged in the controversy, including John Cumming, Richard Blackmore, and Daniel Waterland. Another issue of this work in 1726 adds the names of S. Candler and S. Billingsley to the imprint.
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SKELTON (Philip):
Ophiomaches: Or Deism Revealed. With a new Introduction by David Berman.
London: Printed for A. Millar..., 1749. Reprinted, Bristol: Thoemmes Antiquarian Books Ltd., 1990. 2 volumes. 8vo, pp. xiv, xxi [xxii blank, xxiii - lxii Contents], 343 [344 blank]; [iv], 416, original cloth. A fine set.
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[STEPHENS (William)]:
An Account of the Growth of Deism in England.
London: Printed for the Author..., 1696. FIRST EDITION. 4to, pp. 32, disbound. Stephens treats deism as a well-established principle and a pernicious influence on true Christian doctrine. Richard Willis wrote an immediate response to it in 1696, Reflexions upon a Pamphlet, intituled, An Account of the Growth of Deism in England. Stephen's work was reprinted, with several other works, in 1709. Wing S 5459.
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WARBURTON (William). [MORGAN (Thomas)]:
A Brief Examination of the Rev. Mr. Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses. In which The Mosaic Theocracy, the Nature and Character of the Sacred Writings, the Antiquity of Hero-Gods, and a future, separate State of Animal Life, and Action for Souls after Death; with other Principles and Positions of that learned Writer are occasionally considered and discussed. Address'd to the Author. By a Society of Gentlemen.
London: Printed for T. Cox..., 1742. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, lxxxiv, 175 [176 blank], later half calf, marled boards, no label. A good copy. . Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses (1738 - 1741) provoked a large number of responses, usually unfavourable from clerics who thought his argument that in the ancient Hebraic world, a "life after death" was not invoked as a mandate for virtuous living. Morgan, a deist, makes a number of ironic compliments to Warburton but more-or-less argues that he doesn't take his argument to its logical conclusion.
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[WATERLAND (Daniel)]:
Scripture Vindicated; In Answer to a Book intituled, Christianity as old as the Creation. Part I. [ II. and III.].
London: Printed for W. Innys [Part I]; Printed for Cornelius Crownfield and John Crownfield [Part II]; Printed for John Crownfield [Part III.]..., 1730, 1731, 1732. FIRST EDITION of all three parts. 8vo, 198 x 119 mms., pp. [iv], 96 [last page misnumbered 94]; [iv], 160; [iv], 123 [124 adverts], original boards, handwritten label in ink on spine, armorial bookplate of W. Wynne on front paste-down end-paper; binding a little soiled, but a very good copy. Wynne is probably William Wynn[e] (1709 - 1760), the Church of England Clergyman and Welsh-language poet, as the wording on the armorial book plate is in Welsh: "Ne bydd doeth Na Ddarllenno." The motto on the Cardiff Free Library is similar: "'Ni bydd doeth ni ddarlleno" (he who does not read will not be wise). Daniel Waterland (1683 - 1740) was one of many theologians and clerics who published a reply to Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation (1730). His argument that the Scriptures were represented in language that might appear simple and direct, but which had to be interpreted on other levels for its truths to be accurately revealed. There are a number of various locations in ESTC and other online databases for each part, but I could not find a listing for a volume with first editions of all three parts in the same volume.
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[WOLLASTON (William)]:
The Religion of Nature Delineated.
London: Printed by Samuel Palmer...And Sold by B. Lintot..., 1726. 4to, pp. 219 [220 blank, 221 - 231 Index, 232 blank], engraved vignette of printer on title-page, 5 engraved head- and tail-pieces, contemporary speckled calf; front cover scored, top and base of front joint cracked. This is probably the fourth "edition" of this work, though the pagination and registration is the same as that of the 1725 printing. The work was first published in a "few copies" in 1722 and reprinted in 1724. Benjamin Franklin is generally agreed to have been compositor on the 1725 printing, but it is unlikely that he worked on this 1726 printing.
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